GERMANY'S SGL Group, the world's leading maker of carbon and graphite, plans to turn Banting, Selangor, into a graphite and carbon hub in the region.It has pledged investment of some €200 million (RM964 million). SGL plans to set up two graphized electrode and cathode production plants in the area.Its chief executive officer Robert Koehler said the company had invested some €50 million (RM241 million) to build a 30,000-tonne graphite electrode plant in Banting. The second plant is scheduled to start operations in 2011, while the first facility will begin production in the second half of this year.
(12-01-2009 New Straits Times)
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